| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Rethinking art's histories |
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Rethinking art's histories.
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| Contents |
Cover; Fleshing out surfaces; Contents; List of illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction; 2 The surface's substance; 3 Nervous canvas; 4 Sensitive limit; 5 Skin colour; 6 Seeing through the skin; 7 Hermetic borderline; 8 Epilogue: segregation; Select bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Skin in art.
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Human skin color in art.
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Skin -- Psychological aspects
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Art, French -- Themes, motives
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Anatomy, Artistic.
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Anatomy, Artistic
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ART -- History -- General.
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Anatomy, Artistic
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Art, French -- Themes, motives
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Human skin color in art
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Skin in art
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Skin -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526104663 |
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1526104660 |
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9781526120724 |
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1526120720 |
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